Bengals are too soft.

[Dill]

(11-12-2018, 04:43 PM)6andcounting Wrote: Anyone born around 1960 and onward would have watched the Steelers perform as one of the few premier franchises since they were kids. They wouldn't be fans of other teams and jump on the Steelers' bandwagon when things got good - things would have always been good and they would have been Steelers fans from the start. Calling someone who has been a fan since childhood a bandwagoner doesn't really work.

LOL good point. Even the very few occasional bad years had their silver linings.  The 6-10 2003 season gave them Ben--scourge of the AFN tha last 15 years. 

Among Steeler fans, though, there are "bad times." Think of those back to back 8-8 seasons, AFC championship losses and the like.  The standards are different from Bengals' fans. So the pain is relative. Seven years without a Superbowl appearance is just as hard on Steeler fans as 26 years without a playoff win on the Bengals.